Advice on changing themes for beginning coder

[allieb]

We are re-doing our website, and as we look at the "Going Green" Theme, it seems outdated.
I am a beginner coder, and our current web support person is often busy and hard to reach.
If we change to a more current-looking child theme, how much coding expertise will be needed?
Do we dare try it and see?

We have an email sign-up (Enews Widget), a shopping cart, and 2 quizzes (WordPress Simple Survey Widget).
Otherwise it is pretty simple.

(The URL is below and there is a short code problem at the moment affecting the homepage & blog but the rest of the pages are accessible, sorry about that.)

I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has changed themes, how it worked best, etc.
And any thoughts on the Going Green theme, thanks.

http://navigatedivorceguide.com

[Davinder Singh Kainth]

New theme will have new widget area, so your old widget's content won't appear there. New theme won't affect anything you have added insides posts or pages content (unless they are pulling styling from non-standard classes).

To summarize: header, footer, sidebar area have to you re-worked when you switch to new theme.

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[anotherusername]

Well, the going green theme can be changed so it looks more contemporary, but it depends on how much CSS you are willing to undertake.

I would personally like something more modern. A theme that you might look at for ideas for colors (or even for the layout) would be the Enterprise pro theme.

http://my.studiopress.com/themes/enterprise/

I don't know if you made it yourself - and I really hope you won't take it personally if you did - but the current site at https://www.navigatedivorceguide.com/ does need a bit of help.

I think the current site would benefit from improved graphics, improved responsive design (a lot of the menu gets get covered when viewed on different screen sizes), links (why open a link in a few window?), and more importantly, the content.

I don't mean to harp, but I think that if you were to really do research on WHAT PEOPLE ARE SEARCHING FOR, it would not be something like "don't let the lawyers hijack your divorce." I am sure that with some research, you would find keywords and phrases that would be more popular, and would bring more potential customers to your site.

Personally, I wouldn't stick with that particular kelly green color, unless the client already had LOTS of printed marketing / publishing material and they needed the kelly green for branding purposes. But that is just me.

I would also kindly suggest that Mr. Burke have someone re-edit the photo of him (it is a bit too dark and too much magenta), and would also suggest that investing in some decent stock images might help.

Sorry I went totally off topic, but these are the more important things, in my opinion.

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Also, as Davinder said above, mostly your widgets will need to be moved to new areas.

I hope this helps, and apologize if it does not.

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